Beit-buckle



0. SELLE.

* am BUCKLE. APPLICATION FILED MAY I9 1919.

1,323,917. Patented Dec. 2,1919.

. I INVENTOR owmsau T TORN E YS WITNESSES Y oLIvEa SELLE, or sT. LoUIs, MISSOURI.

BELT-BUCKLE.

Specification ofl Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2, 1919.

Application filed May 19, 1919. Serial No. 298,229.

To all whom t may concern: a

Be it known that I, OLIVER SELLE, a citizen of the United States,'and a resident of St Louis, in the State of Missouri, have 1nvented a new and Improved Belt-Buckle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in belts and pertains more particularly to a buckle therefor.

The primary object of the invention is. to provide a device of this character in which the tang of the'buckle may be readily engaged with or disengaged from the free end of the belt.

A further object of the invention is to provide a, device of this character in which the greater the strain imparted to the tang of the buckle, the tighter said tang engages the free end of the belt.

With the above and other objects in view, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings in which- A Figure 1 is a top plan view;

F ig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the buckle comprises a body portion 5 formed of any suitable sheet metal, and on opposite sides of said body portion 5 and arranged at right angles thereto are flanges 6. Each of these anges 6 is provided with an elongated slot 7, which is angularly disposed with respect to said body portion, and slidably mounted in said angularly disposed slots 7 is a transversely-extending rod 8,'the ends of said rod being upset to form heads 9, by means of which it is retained in place.

Pivotally mounted on the transversely extending rod 8, is a tang 10, which consists of a shank portion 11 and a hook end 12. The tang 10 is pivotally mounted about the transversely extending rod 8, by means of a sleeve 13, with which the tang 10 is cast integral, and said sleeve is formed yintermediate of its ends with an enlarged portion 14:.

Pivotally mounted between the flanges 6 buckle, is a link 15, and said Alink is provided with right-angularly disposed extensions 16, which form the pivotal points thereof.

In operation one end of the belt is looped about the link 15, and is secured by means of a suitable end fastener or the like 17. rlhe other end 18 of the belt is passed around the body of the wearer and is inserted into the Abuckle between the sleeve 13 and the body by reason of contact of the sleeve 13 withy the belt 18, the hook end of the tang is further maintained in engagement with the opening 19. Owing to the fact that the transversely extending rod 8 on which the tang is mounted, is slida-ble in the slots 7, and said slots are angularly disposed as shown in Fig. 2, a pull on the belt behind the buckle causes said rod to ride up the inoline of the slot 7, forming an additional grip between the sleeve 13 and the body portion 5 of the buckle.

When it is desired to remove the belt, the free end thereof is grasped and pulled, which action swings the tang about its 'pivotal point and disengages its hook end from the opening in the belt, in which position the belt is free to be removed from the buckle 51 Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A beltibuckle comprising a body portion provided with opposite-disposed and angularlyslotted flanges, a transversely extending rod movable longitudinally of the angular slots in the flanges, and a belt-en gaging tangl pivotally mounted on said rod and movable therewith with respect to the body portion of the buckle.

2. A device of the character described comprising a flanged body portion having angularly disposed slots, a transversely extending rod slidably mounted in said anlao Y gulai'ly disposed slots7 a sleeve rotatably mounted on said rod, and a belt engaging tang rigidly carried by said sleeve, and(l adapted for engagement with a belt upon 5 movement of the sleeve on the transverse rod.

3. A device of the olialrwter described disposed angulaily slotted flanges, a transversely extending iod mounted in seid zmgular' slots, e belt engaging tang carried by said rod, and means for frietionally engaging said belt Vfor simultaneously engaging Said tang WithV said belt.

OLIVER SELLE. Y Y 

